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One of the first questions I asked
about film production is how much.

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Well how long is a piece of string. And
motion pictures not a stock or in them.

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Tori item that can cost surprisingly
little or involve a budget

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that would choke an elephant. Now the cost
of camera raw stock that's a fixed item.

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Maybe this is the place to start.

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Now let me see my movie should run about
twenty minutes take about seven rolls of

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film and about a dollars a roll
of being fifty six dollars.

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And magnetic striping only see twenty
minutes is seven hundred twenty feet at

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two and a half cents or for

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that only eighteen dollars eighteen

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fifty six seventy four dollars saw
on a minute film will cost about

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seventy seventy five dollars boy.

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Movie sure cost an awful lot.

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Yes films can cost a lot

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but there's more to producing a
motion picture than buying raw stock.

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Perhaps it would be better to go
to someone with film experience.

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Follow the parents too.
Still Man sales promotion.

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Oh yeah and your kind of fire.

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We want to make a product picture on

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that trench sixteen millimeter color say
about twenty minutes are much cost.

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Give me some more information go
information a kind of information.

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Well you'll know who's the audience going
to be how many locations how many actors

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how much equipment you know we'll
pack all that stuff later on the back

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and about five minutes.
I want to get going.

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Yeah but but

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but you know I don't know.

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Hello Joe. Twelve thousand dollars.

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Come up with a fake thanks to your.

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Oh OK.

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Sometimes the bull's eye is way off base
certain basic information is required

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before a quotation can be made it might
be best to call in an outside expert a

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practicing producer for some
realistic and firm figures.

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There's really no secret about prices you
know there is no secret about our prices

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Mr JOHNSON. Now indeed figure him out for
you right now I'm listening. Esther.

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I'll be sure I've got all
of the facts straight

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and what you want is a twenty
minute film right. That's right.

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And you want it in full sound

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and full color. That's right. Right.

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We want to show the the factory.

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And any other scenes that are necessary
to tell a story right right.

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OK let me figure this now
for a few minutes and.

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I'll have it for you fine as what I've got
to have because well actually price is a

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big factor

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that a fit into our budget on the other
hand we don't intend to be unreasonable.

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We realize that pictures cost money.

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And I've discussed that angle
pretty fairly with our board

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and I think they understand it. They get
about what you pay for and anything about.

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So we can understand a
reasonable proposition.

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But we don't expect to pay a Hollywood
prices we would know still for

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that need not.

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So if you can convince me
that your price is fair and

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that the picture will be good. I'll be
able to get the money for my board.

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Fine that's the business
like way to look at it much.

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Jassem.

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Yes the business like approach.
It involves many things.

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How much you have to spend is a rather
critical item as it will determine how much

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a producer can work into a film.

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When you're contemplating a show discuss
it with the producer in its earliest

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stages give him complete
and detailed information

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and allow him to submit a proposal.

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This proposal will contain a
total budget and cost breakdown

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and a suggested story treatment.

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This permits determination of
cost in advance of expenditure

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and gives a comprehensive
idea of the end product.

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But without sufficient information.

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The question how much can only be answered
by how long is a piece of string.